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I sometimes it's useless to quote Einstein to the fundamentalist crowd. They probably think Einstein means "one beer" in German!
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> Along with Newton, Einstein also saw no conflict between his science and
> religion. The following quotes, much abridged, are from A. Einstein, Ideas and
> Opinions, Dell, NY, 1956.
> <<You will hardly find one among the profounder sort of scientific minds
> without a religious feeling of his own. But it is different from the religiosity
> of the naive man. For the latter, God is a being from whose care one hopes to
> benefit and whose punishment one fears . . . . But the scientist is possessed
> by the sense of universal causation. . . . His religious feeling takes the
> form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an
> intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic
> thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.>> (p.
> 49)
> <<Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the
> rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a
> higher order. This firm belief . . . in a superior mind that reveals itself in the
> world of experience, represents my conception of God. In common parlance this
> may be described as 'pantheistic'.>> (p. 255)
> <<The main source of the present-day conflicts between the spheres of
> religion and of science lies in this concept of a personal God.>> (pp. 55)
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> I find it particularly interesting that Einstein uses "mind" and
> "intelligence" in describing his belief.
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> Ted Ansbacher
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